I have (and often change) 3 keyboard layouts on my Mint 17/Mate. I would like to see a notification on my screen when layout is changed, e.g. "Switched to English/US". I tried to do it via keyboard ...

When I get a chat message in Empathy, I get a notification in GNOME Shell. This notification allows me to input a reply directly, instead of having to switch to Empathy.
Is there any way I can get a ...

I'm using procmail with Maildir/ and easy rules like the one below to save incoming emails into directories:
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
Spam/
Now I would like a desktop notification on new emails in ...

I like that GNOME 3's (v3.4 on Ubuntu 12.04) 'Hot Corner' and 'notification corner (?)' response really fast, but the latter, for me, would have been better off at the bottom-left corner; leaving the ...

It seems there's some bug in KDE related to power management and after putting my netbook to sleep several times, plugging it in and out, the notification about screen brightness set to 100% doesn't ...

I use Linux Mint 13 MATE, and I'm trying to set up notifications when I plug/unplug devices.
First of all, I found udev-notify package, but unfortunately it almost doesn't work for me: it works for ...

I need a notifier such that:
It is possible to send messages from one machine to another without any password (like in case of notify-send). Correct me if I'm wrong.
It is such that only when a user ...

Here's an interesting situation. I have:
A Linux box that is a motion sensor and can execute command line commands upon receiving a motion event (see the Linux motion app).
Another Linux box that (I ...

I'm using Linux Mint 16 Petra with the MATE desktop environment.
Perhaps I shouldn't have done this, but when I was adding a new application to my list of startup applications, I saw what seemed like ...

Notifications doesn't work on Linux standalone window managers (Openbox, Awesome WM and alike). I tried to install notification-daemon and dunst, but sending with notify-send "something" does not make ...

I'm looking for a specific functionality/piece of software, and I'm wondering if anyone can help me find it.
I administer a fairly large number of servers and run some long-term jobs on some of them ...

If I am on a Skype call with a person (with Share Screen Option switched ON), I don't want to get notified if someone calls me or messages me. They shouldn't know who my contacts are. What should I do ...

I'm on Debian 6.0.5 (squeeze) and every now and then I see the following icon in the notifications area of the GNOME2 pannel: but black instead of red. It reads A package manager is working. Usually ...

How to prevent desktop notifications from showing up when VLC is in fullscreen
mode?
Some of my scripts display desktop notifications using notify-send. The best
solution would be to configure that ...

I'm using Pidgin 2.10.0-1.fc14 and libpurple 2.10.0. I have completely disabled all the notifications from Plugins: Libnotify Popups and Message Notifications.
The problem is it still notifies every ...

I am trying to instate a more graphically minimal notification system in Arch Linux. Specifically, I've taken interest with programs such as dzen2 or conky that allow for more text-based status bars.
...

The title of this question is really self explanatory. I intend to send synchronous volume notifications in arch(changing volume and showing the progress bar) and was wondering if I can do this with ...

It seems like the notification bar on the bottom of the desktop in Linux Mint 12 never hides unless I click N+1 times on it first (N being the number of messages). Since it's overlaid over all windows ...